We keep going with the coverage of our 7th Custom Contest, which had “Public and private services” as the theme. This time we have the Modified class, which allows accesories and much more extensive alterations to the car’s body compared with the two previous classes, on top of the usual wheelswapping, general detailing, etcetera.

As stated in ourrulebook, every class was judged under the principle that the participating customs had to stick to the contest’s theme. Having said that, we leave you with the entries for this class and their customizers. Down bellow you’ll find the winners of the first three places, with a small photoshoot of each, as well as commentary from our judges regarding why they won.

Judges comment: José nabbed third place with this Caddy, an excellent representation of an ex-official vehicle that’s fallen in the hands of an enthusiast that’s given it a whole new lease in life as a clean show car, just like it usually happens in the euro scene, where retired service vehicles are hot commodities to rebuild as street cars. The excellent body work -as in most of José’s customs-, the ‘Feuerwehr’ tampo -Fire Dept. in german-, the led tip as the turret and the mandatory stance over custom wheels round out this well conceptualized custom. The only way it’d be better was if José simulated some patina and wear in the body instead of giving it shiny paint, as if the original paint of this one fire department unit was preserved, with an all new chassis and mechanicals under it.

Judges comment: Romher took second place with his fruit-vending Chevy truck, a somewhat common sight in Mexico City’s streets. The conceptualization of this custom is extraordinary due to its intricate detailing, from the products on offer in the bed, arranged in a shelf with all sorts of fruit, a crate of bottled water and even a frankly amazing plastic bag dispenser, to the general shape of the truck, the telltale of a life of abuse and hard work that’s taken its toll on the poor old pick-up: the tattered plastic cover of the bed hiding a homemade steel structure, the dashboard that has succumbed to the sun and has cracked, and the body that exchanged its baby blue paint for rust and bondo. Moreover, all of the above was greatly executed and perfectly portrait the purpose of the truck and the hypothetical harsh life it has led. This was one of the better achieved customs in the entire contest, and was within spitting distance of taking the victory.

Judges comment: With just one more point than Romher’s fruit truck, Ahmed’s Big Bertha tank took first place in the class. Again, concept was everything in this contest, and this hunk didn’t have a single element out of place and was basically perfect, something difficult to achieve in a military-themed custom, especially as it’s something that Ahmed isn’t a fan of in the slightest, but an exhaustive research work landed a portrait as accurate as possible -specially at this scale- of a Patton M60 tank. Moreover, execution is meticulous, with a lot of care given to keeping the scale of the accessories as correct as possible, and a wonderful weathering job over a military green paint job. All of this, together with the ‘seems simple but it’s way more than meets the eye’ approach, and the exact amount of accessories without crossing the ‘too much’ line, landed it a deserved top spot in the class.